General Network Features

• Support for 64k nodes and hundreds of processes per node• Efficient network protocol, minimizing overhead even for very small packets• Support for arbitrary direct topologies• In-order delivery of packets (for scalability and upper-level protocols)• Choice of adaptive and deterministic routing on packet granularity• Three virtual channels (VCs)• Four independent traffic classes (TCs)• Support for remote configuration and monitoring of EXTOLL nodes without host interaction